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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Luke 4 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/luke/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/luke/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Luke 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../luke/3.htm" title="Luke 3">◄</a> Luke 4 <a href="../luke/5.htm" title="Luke 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/luke/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>where for forty days he was tempted <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.">a</a></sup></span> by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 8:3">b</a></sup></span> ”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you worship me, it will all be yours.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 6:13">c</a></sup></span> ”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For it is written:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“ ‘He will command his angels concerning you</p><p class="line2">to guard you carefully;</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>they will lift you up in their hands,</p><p class="line2">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 91:11,12">d</a></sup></span> ”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Deut. 6:16">e</a></sup></span> ”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Rejected at Nazareth</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">because he has anointed me</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">to proclaim good news to the poor.</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners</span></p><p class="line2"><span class="red">and recovery of sight for the blind,</span></p><p class="line1"><span class="red">to set the oppressed free,</span></p> <p class="line2"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6">f</a></sup></span> </span></p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He began by saying to them, <span class="red">“Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’ ”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">“Truly I tell you,”</span> he continued, <span class="red">“no prophet is accepted in his hometown.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">And there were many in Israel with leprosy <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word traditionally translated leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin.">g</a></sup></span> in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="red">“Be quiet!”</span> Jesus said sternly. <span class="red">“Come out of him!”</span> Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Jesus Heals Many</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>But he said, <span class="red">“I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/luke/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek for <i>tempted</i> can also mean <i>tested</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 8:3</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 6:13</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 91:11,12</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Deut. 6:16</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotebot">Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word traditionally translated <i>leprosy</i> was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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